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(2) 42 neglected. They were studied only till the end of Class VIII, and thereafter the student had the option to omit them if he so desired. In many secondary schools, even the provision for the teaching of these subjects did not exist. The net result was that more than 50 per cent of the students at the secondary stage were deprived of basic education in science and mathematics. Adequate teaching of science and mathematics is: essential in the modern world based on science and technology. It is equally necessary to improve the quality of education and to avoid the dangers. resulting from a dichotomy of the “two cultures” of science and of humanities. Above all, a society. like ours, which is committed to the ideals of socialism, has to ensure vertical mobility to the manual workers, whether engaged in industry or agriculture. For this purpose, it must provide the necessary grounding in science and mathematics to: every person as a part of his school educatlon because, without this, vertical mobility is not. attainable. The Education Commission, therefore, rightly recommended that the teaching of science and mathematics should be obligatory till the end. of Class X. While a student should ordinarily be expected to: decide whether he will go in for a vocational course. or into the university stream at the end of Class X. (when he is about 16 years of age), it goes without. saying that such decisions would be tentative and, that some young persons may like to change from one stream to the other at a later stage. The Central advisory Board of Educatson, therefore,